One of the benefits of this redesign is I got to rediscover some excellent content we’ve published on CoffeeGeek, a lot of it before the Coffee Pulse Newsletter started up. Almost all of it got a multi-tiered refresh: the articles were edited, new photos and videos were shot, and they were given a nice shiny coat of web paint.
Take, for instance, our How To on Balance Brewers. We go deep into what is effectively the world’s first automatic coffee maker, invented in 1844, and still easily found for sale today. They work a lot like siphon coffee makers, but side by side instead of up and down. They can be seen as a bit of a novelty act in the brewing world, but are still very much worthy of your interest.
The Japanese Iced Coffee Method, which we first covered back in 2017 also got a make over and some updated visuals. If you are into cold brew, outside of iced espresso, I happen to think this is the best method you can use, considering the ease of the method, the relatively short time it takes, and the results in the cup. We use this method in our home a lot for other coffee builds as well, including our own home made nitro-injected coffee drinks.
A personal favourite of mine is the Irish Coffee How To. A very different version of this first appeared on CoffeeGeek in 2007. I worked with a bartender friend to refine it and reshoot it, and that variant went online in 2011. Around that time I was also training some of Vancouver’s top bartenders in the art of fine coffee, and with one of them, the “Devil in Molly Malone” variant of the Irish Coffee drink was born. For whatever reason, that content didn’t make it over to the 2021 version of CoffeeGeek, which was one of many mistakes we made for that overhaul. For 2024, that’s been corrected, and this historically rich, visual walk through on the traditional Irish Coffee, and the added bonus signature drink, “Devil in Molly Malone” are now back on our website.
Last thing I’d like to cover in this issue is two new content categories we introduced for 2024: Snapshot Reviews, and the Feature Guides section.
Snapshot Reviews replace our blog’s “mini reviews”. They come with full scores, a lot more information on the products, and are set up to allow us to build listing categories for all the products we review, letting you find products and their scores and rankings quickly. They are designed to get products reviewed fast, but with our usual attention to details. Our most recent is the Hario Mugen Dripper Review.
Feature Guides is something I’ve wanted on CoffeeGeek for four years now. They’re going to encompass a wide range of very rich, long form content. From buying guides, to best-of guides. From masterclasses on solitary coffee brewing topics, to in depth examinations of things like plant based “milks”, coffee variatal types, and more. Our first three Feature Guides are now online, with the most recent being published just this morning: Best Budget Espresso Machines for 2024, Ten Types of Coffee Makers, and today’s addition, 25 Coffee Drinks to Try Before You Die.
If these seem a bit “click-bait” like, that’s on purpose. Not to gain us SEO driven clicks. But to provide you with real, researched content based on real world experience. Far too much AI-driven drivel is out there topping out on search engine searches because these are terms people tend to search for a lot. We wanted to be the island of quality content out there in a sea of AI-written click bait that serves no one any good other than the publisher of that content.
Every one of our Feature Guides will be written by experienced coffee lovers, with the purpose of providing you with honest and worthy content that helps you understand coffee better, make better purchase decisions, and hopefully avoid some mistakes people make when buying and using coffee and espresso equipment. That’s a pledge and a promise.
I’m looking forward to connecting with you next week as we get back to our regular newsletter schedule. Till then, I hope you’re enjoying some fantastic coffee!
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